Charles Bukowski interview part 2

[sodiumwinter1]

Poor mans Henry Miller very poor indeed. I can't stand this pretentious politically incorrect looney lefty! He appeals Psuedo intellectual sexist Italian blokes. He's outrageous!

[Nervousification]

No Charles, you starved because you were drinking all the time, not because you were writing. Haha

[unholychunk]

couldn't stand to work 8 to 5 yet worked at the post office for 15 years lol

[mitsurugi2651]

@unholychunk that was only many years of quitting and being fired many 8 to 5 jobs. and even the post he quit after 3 years and was forced to go back for another 11.

[unholychunk]

@mitsurugi2651 you don't have to try and school me, I have read the post office, at no point was he forced to return as a fulltimer instead of a fill in. As a full timer, He set up a mock letter box grid in his home to practise sorting faster. Making his 15 year job at the post  intrusive to his "downtime", "freedom" which I believe is a big part in which he desliked the 9 to 5 routine.

[nevernohijab]

glorification of alcoholism and dirty sex isn't talent.

[doddelito]

@nevernohijab did you actually read his stuff?

[nevernohijab]

@doddelito yes, I did.

But I wouldn't want to read it again.

Western intellectuals glorified him as a revolutionary dropout, but he wrote just what he called - the notes of a dirty old man.

[doddelito]

@nevernohijab

Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery.

However, rather than glorifying his life style, I would claim that he satirized the machismo attitude through his routine use of sex, alcohol abuse, and violence. Without trying to make himself look good, Bukowski writes with a nothing-to-lose truthfulness which sets him apart from most other ‘autobiographical’ novelists and poets.

[nevernohijab]

@doddelito

Agreed. I see you point.

It's better than a soap opera, for sure, and much better than autobiographs who keep telling you over 300 pages what a hot riot they are.

Me being a clean drug addict and knowin pretty well the ambient he writes about: I believe it's a better solution to step out of the dirt than to write about it...:)

Nevertheless, this must have been quite shocking for some 'normies'...:)

[KarovaMilkyBar]

and thats all theres to say

[chillyrooster]

dedication without talent is useless

[badsign1980]

bukowski was kidding but u can hear a very slint voice from the background almost afriad of in respect for the mans words "okay"

[lowryfern]

Bukowski is bs-ing with regard to " I couldn't stand the 9 to 5 business" here because --as many know he worked in the post office for years...

[mrmcdoobie]

@lowryfern doesn't mean he didn't hate the 9-5. i do it and i hate it

[22drgonzo]

@lowryfern I think by ''8-5'' he means the lifestyle that usually accompanies the 8-5. A house, wife, mortgage, car, kids, and grandma, etc. That's what he couldn't stand. I don't think he was being literal.

[tinokiev]

I couldn't stand the ordinariness of life.

fukin genious.

[RioPugliese]

What an awsome guy...! :-)

He, as a simple "postman", was way cooler than just any stupid rockstar in the whole show business.

[Clarissa2424]

So, dedication without talent is useless..DUH

Like a lot of great artists, this man looks at the world through depression.

Intriguing - I would like to know more, but it is so sad to look at him suffering.

[channelislander]

@Clarissa2424 and apparently you look at it through judgmentalness.

[Clarissa2424]

So, dedication without talent is useless..DUH

[chichikov8]

I still have not found a poet worth reading since he died. The 'university suck toads' have taken over again. Thanks, Buk, for sticking with it and leaving your legacy.

[badsign1980]

barbet is the kind that always had everything buk is such as mistery as anyone who works... barbet is a closet asshole

[tubesteakbooky]

"I was a nut"

[kfDafne]

which brand is he smoking? what are they called?

[punkyswhips]

@kfDafne Handroll :)

[WLG1]

@kfDafne theyre rolled cigarettes. i bet youd smoke any brand that he would you fucking sheep.

[plutoplatters]

@WLG1 Ha......... probably smoke his turds ! or johnny depps !

[JAYCHUCKBURNS]

@WLG1

bukowski smoked "beedies" google them or go to a tobacco shop.

[bypsycho]

"dedication without talent is useless..."

[MarionGoesHigh]

You will never be forgotten Hank.

[JoeD60]

1:36-1:46 This guy hits the nail on the head here.

[rubberting]

I like the fact he took the piss out of us all, but i still find him funny

[teemuselanne]

he gave up food but i have never seen him without his bottle. hank your the best poet of the 20th century fuck you and the rest of us

[andywho2002]

Saw the DVD documentary. His wife was there for his final breath. His face was fianally clear . He was at rest.  I am sure that when "Hank" met "the great beyond" they would make him comfortable.

[CorvidaeHerald]

@andywho2002 Yeah, since we're talking about imaginary bullshit, let's imagine they'll make him superman.

[CalmBefore6]

@andywho2002 i can only imagin him getting to heaven and the first thing hed do would be asking where the bar is :) 

[SpicMick]

...miss you hank.